Parks, wartime & the military

The photograph above shows the bell tower in Nottingham Arboretum. Designed by Nottingham’s borough engineer Marriott Ogle Tarbotton in 1857, the monument features two cannons captured in 1853 during the Crimean War with Russia and a bell seized in 1857 in Canton during the Anglo-Chinese War.

Parklands in WW2(3 April 2016)-By Malcolm Prosser and Jonathan Coope. Early roles for the parks As in WW1, Goose Fair was cancelled pretty much automatically. And in May 1940 the Council refused to overturn […]

Problems running the parks during WW1(29 March 2016)-By Malcolm Prosser and Jonathan Coope. It is worth noting that anti-social behaviour in the parks didn’t stop simply because there was a war on. A number of instances of […]

During 2016 we worked with community groups to disseminate our research findings to local communities and beyond via a range of accessible and innovative activities, including a play, exhibition, walks, talks and other events. Explore the rest of the website for more details.

The Social World of Nottingham’s Green Spaces is a community co-production history project to investigate the social history of some of Nottingham’s most important parks and open spaces.

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